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Passion for explosions
On the night of August 2 to 3 in Odessa, an explosion occurred on the territory of the base of volunteers and the movement "Self -Defense of Odessa". The surveillance cameras recorded how, at half past four in the morning, a motorcyclist drove up to the base of the base and threw a bundle into the territory. A few seconds later there was an explosion, and the attacker disappeared. The explosion was knocked out by the glass of the guard, the gates were damaged by fragments. Fortunately, a security guard a few minutes before, he excommunicated the base building and therefore did not suffer.
A police explosive examination showed that a homemade device with a capacity of about 200 grams in TNT equivalent was blown up. Representatives of "self -defense" told the "faces" that the device was a bearing, but filled with damaging elements - self -tapping screws and nails.
The case was opened under the article “Intentional infliction of property damage”. "Self -Defense of Odessa" intends to seek the qualifications of a crime under the article “Terrorism”.
The Odessa Self -Defense believes that sabotage groups lead from Russia, and under the slogans of the protection of the "Russian world" against the civilian population a terrorist war sent by the Kremlin is underway.
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Terrorist war in Odessa
During the year, dozens of night explosions occurred in Odessa. Terrorists choose objects symbolically and organizationally associated with the new government chosen in Ukraine after the victory of the Maidan. Each time, terrorists used a home -made explosive device with a charge of about 200 grams in TNT equivalent.
The Security Service of Ukraine conducts a continuous operation to neutralize terrorist groups. As the SBU press service reported , up to 40 saboteurs were detained by April. The ten of them announced suspicion of creating a terrorist organization.
On April 1, it was reported that in Odessa a group was disclosed, which in December 2014 - March 2015 committed a number of terrorist attacks in the city. Three main members of the group, activists of the Odessa anti -Maidan were detained . They explained that they had committed terrorist attacks in the struggle for "communist ideals." The anti -Maidanists took responsibility for ten crimes.
Among the terrorist attacks that the Anti -Maidan people confessed are explosions of the Ukrainian Symbolism of the Patrіot, the office of the organization "Volunteer Hundreds of Dalia Severin", which collects assistance to the fighters of the ATO. They also took responsibility for explosions in an apartment belonging to the poet Boris Kherson, and in the house where the headquarters of the local "Right Sector" used to be located. In addition, the Anti-Maidanites said that they blew up the headquarters of the local branch of the Self-Help Party, the office of the Paradigma-12 organization, which the head of which is helped by the ATO, and the volunteer center on Staroportofrankovskaya Street.
On May 2, 2014, clashes between pro -Russian activists and supporters of the Kyiv authorities occurred in Odessa. Some of the separatists took refuge in the house of trade unions, which after a while caught fire. During the riots, 48 were killed and about 250 people were injured.